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Book Review: For better and for worse, the top tier of professional hockey, the NHL, has come to represent the sport. It has, in fact, become the very identity of hockey, writes J. Andrew Ross, a sports and business historian at the University of Guelph. Joining the Clubs is rife with personality, just like the strong-willed, forward thinking individuals who made the NHL possible. Ross’s writing is lively and engaging, and his book is a fascinating look at the NHL in its formative years.

Can controversy be used to produce a favourable outcome in the history classroom? If so, how?

Using DNA to test conjectures about your family history. 

Students learn how Indigenous peoples were impacted by settlement and colonization.

In this lesson students will explore Treaty Relationships in Canada through a simulation and inquiry project. 

In this lesson students explore James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the resulting affects on Cree and Inuit.

The history of Afro-Indigenous peoples is largely underrepresented in classrooms and curricula due to the group’s intersectionality. Afro-Indigenous peoples have a unique history in Canada — and more broadly across Turtle Island — that deserves to be integrated into the narrative of Canadian history and Canadian identity. The following lesson is designed to better highlight the history of this marginalized group.

In this presentation, Georgiana Stanciu speaks about current educational activities and practices within museums. 

In this podcast series, Canada’s History spoke with the finalists for the 2023 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.

This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast features three educators who are using partnerships and community-based learning to further their students learning.